Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

The two massive guns that defended Cartagena Bay.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.

This highest bridge in the world spans such a great chasm that it had to be established using rockets.

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.